There’s a moment in “Look at the Flowers” where Negan and Daryl — having come to an understanding that Negan didn’t really switch sides — are sitting together, waiting for a woman that won’t show up, and Negan admits that yes, he did enjoy his time with the Whisperers. It’s not just the freedom, although that was obviously a big part of it: He just liked feeling like he mattered again. But Alpha killed people who didn’t need killing, including wanting to murder her own daughter, and that was too much for him. Daryl growls that he still doesn’t like him, but some sort of accord has been reached.

The Negan redemption the show has been building towards for some time has always been a dicey proposition, not just because of his myriad crimes (including his harem that nobody likes to talk about), but because his

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